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Unit 13 Review Game. Essential Question : What were the major domestic & foreign themes in U.S. history from 1960-1974? Cuban Missile Death Match!. Unit 13 Review Game. In groups of three, respond to each prompt presented:
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Unit 13 Review Game • Essential Question: • What were the major domestic & foreign themes in U.S. history from 1960-1974? • Cuban Missile Death Match!
Unit 13 Review Game • In groups of three, respond to each prompt presented: • For each series of prompts, groups will earn points per correct answer • For each incorrect answer, groups will earn 0 points • Groups will earn 5, 4, 3, 2, or 1 bonus points based on scores
What Event Caused Each? • The beginning of the civil rights movement in 1954 • The emergence of Martin Luther King as a national civil rights leader in 1955 • March on Washington in 1963 byCORE,SCLC,SNCC,NAACP • Civil Rights Act of 1964 • Voting Rights Act of 1965
Brown v BOE → Civil Rights Movement • Success of the Montgomery Bus Boycott → MLK as leader (& SCLC) • National attention generated by Birmingham march → March on D.C. • Birmingham violence on TV and/or March on D.C. → Civil Rights Act • Violence at Selma march → Voting Rights Act
Identify Each JFK Concept:“Best & the Brightest”“New Frontier”“Flexible Response”Bay of Pigs Warren Commission
“Best & Brightest”: Term for JFK’s White House staff; He increased power of prez by using his staff more than the Cabinet • “New Frontier”: JFK’s domestic policy, called for liberal reform in education, poverty, & strong stand against USSR • “Flexible Response”: JFK’s foreign policy of using a variety of tactics, increased nuclear missiles, CIA, Green Berets • Bay of Pigs: Failed invasion of Cuba 1961 • Warren Commission: Gov’t investigation of JFK’s assassination (“Oswald did it“)
Identify Each Vietnam Concept:Ho Chi MinhNgo Dinh Diem Vietcong Gulf of Tonkin Resolution, 1964Tet Offensive, 1968Pentagon PapersVietnamization
Ho Chi Minh: Communist leader in North • Diem: Democratic leader in South; JFK gave OK for his assassination in 1963 • Vietcong: Communists in the South • Gulf of Tonkin Resolution: Congress gave LBJ all necessary steps to win Vietnam; led to full deployment of U.S. troops • Tet Offensive: Communist invasion into South; showed that USA wasn’t winning • Pentagon Papers: Military docs showed U.S. gov’t was distorting truth about war • Vietnamization: Nixon’s gradual withdrawal of U.S. troops; Let Vietnamese fight
Name 1 way each helped Civil Rights from 1948-1965:Harry TrumanDwight EisenhowerLyndon JohnsonSupreme Court CORESNCC
Truman: Desegregated military in 1948 • Ike: Enforced school integration at Little Rock’s Central High School in 1957 • LBJ: Civil Rights Act of 1964, Voting Rights Act of 1965, 24th Amendment • Supreme Court: Brown v. BOE in 1954 overturned Plessy • CORE: Freedom Rides in 1961 • SNCC: College students inspired by MLK began the sit-in; Later became militant under Stokely Carmichael
Name 5 reasons 1968 was one of the most tumultuous years in American history
Assassination of MLK • Assassination of Robert Kennedy • Student protests in Chicago during Democratic National Convention (Humphrey vs. McCarthy) • Height of the Vietnam War with 500,000 U.S. soldiers deployed • North Vietnam’s Tet Offensive • “Black Power” silent protest at Mexico City Olympics
Name 5 ideas, events, or people associated with “counter-culture” or the “youth movement” of the 1960s & 1970s
Mario Savio, “Free Speech” movement, Students for a Democ Society (SDS) • “Sex, drugs, rock n roll” • Protest of the Vietnam War; Kent State & Jackson State violence in 1970 • Timothy Leary “tune in, turn on, drop out” • Woodstock concert, 1969 • “Hippies” & alternative communities • Any of the “power movements” • Political activism; Dem Convention 1968
Identify Each:DixiecratBlack PowerCivil Rights ActVoting Rights Act Thurgood Marshall Nation of Islam (Black Muslims)
Dixiecrat: Southern Democrats who splintered from the party in opposition to civil rights position of JFK & LBJ • Black Power: led by SNCC & Stokely Carmichael, advocated economic equality with whites; often militant • Civil Rights Act: ended segregation laws • Voting Rights: ended literacy tests & allowed for federal voting registrars • Marshall: Lead NAACP attorney in the Brown case; 1st black Sup.Court justice • Nation of Islam: Led by Malcolm X, advocated a militant, pro-Africa position
Identify Each Civil Rights Concept from 1965-1974: Stonewall RiotERARoe v. Wade La RazaCesar ChavezAlcatraz Island, 1969
Stonewall Riot: Arrests in NY began the gay liberation movement (GLF) • Equal Rights Amnd: failed amendment to end sexual discrimination; Supported by Freidan & Steinem; Opposed by Schlafly • Roe v Wade: Supreme Court upheld abortion rights as a matter of privacy • La Raza: Mexican-American movement dedicated to awareness • Cesar Chavez: Mexican-Am leader of United Farm Workers of America • Alcatraz: Indians of All Tribes seized the prison to bring awareness to Indian rights
Détente: Nixon’s Cold War foreign policy involved: • Easing tensions with USSR • Better relations with China • A gradual withdrawal from Vietnam (Vietnamization)
Identify Each Nixon Concept:“The Great Nixon Turn-Around”“Silent Majority”Ping-Pong DiplomacySALTWar Powers Act (1973)Watergate
Nixon Turn-Around: 90-day freeze on wages helped end a recession in 1971 • Silent Majority: Conservative minded Americans fed up with liberal reform, Cold War foreign policy, & student protests • Ping-Pong Diplomacy: beginning of Nixon’s official recognition of China • SALT: nuclear arms limitation with USSR • War Powers Act:Restrictedmilitarypower of president; Congressional approval to send troops for more than 90 days • Watergate: biggest prez scandal ever